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Amazon Redshift Serverless Now Available in AWS Asia Pacific (New Zealand) Region

Amazon Redshift Serverless delivers scalable cloud data warehouse analytics without infrastructure management, extending coverage to New Zealand users.

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Retrospective edition: 2026-01-12. Source published: 2026-01-12. Added to this archive: 2026-11-03. This briefing was prepared later from the linked announcement; it was not published on this website on the historical edition date.

Amazon Redshift Serverless enables users to run high-performance analytics without provisioning or managing clusters, automatically scaling data warehouse capacity to workload demands. This release extends availability to the Asia Pacific (New Zealand) region, allowing faster insights through SQL querying and integration with existing BI tools.

The serverless model bills compute resources per second used, simplifying cost management. It supports querying data stored in Amazon S3 with open formats such as Apache Parquet and Iceberg, and integrates with existing Redshift features like data shares and snapshots without requiring manual infrastructure configuration.

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Amazon Redshift Serverless is now available in the AWS Asia Pacific (New Zealand) region ↗

Source published 2026-01-12. This report was prepared with AI assistance from the linked primary-source material. Claims and limitations should be checked against the original announcement or research.